Basic information on the Faculty and Jindřichův Hradec

Basic information on the Faculty

The Faculty of Management, based in Jindřichův Hradec, offers a programme of studies in the sphere of management on Bachelor` s level, with the possibility to continue on Master`s and Doctor`s levels, as well as in the programmes of life-long studies.

After having mastered a block of subjects called common rudiments, read at all faculties of Prague School of Economics, a student of the Faculty of Management majors in the framework of the main subject - Management, divided into the following subsidiary specialisations:

Business Management
Management of Public Services
Information Management
Healthcare Management

Apart from teaching activities, the Faculty also runs a large number of research activities, in most cases in the framework of international co-operation ( let us mention, above all, the universities in Cambridge, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Nevada, the U.S.A.).

The Faculty of Management has at its disposal a modern complex of student hostels, which makes it possible to comply with almost all requests for accommodation.

Jindřichův Hradec

The District of Jindřichův Hradec ranks among the largest ones in the Czech Republic as to its area. Its lovely countryside is formed - on the one hand - by the mountainous area of the Czech-Moravian Highlands, reaching here through the Jihlava Hills and the Dačice Uplands, on the other hand by the Třeboň Basin, with its numerous large artificial lakes, and finally by the Novohradské Hills, infringing here from the south-west.

In the area of the Czech-Moravian Highlands there are huge romantic agglomerations of granite boulders, creating bizarre formations, including balancing boulders. It is also possible to enjoy the natural beauties of a considerable part of Jindřichův Hradec District, the so-called "Czech Canada", when you set out on a romantic trip, using a narrow-gauge railway from Jindřichův Hradec to Nová Bystřice.

Jindřichův Hradec is a town with a long history and an ancient tradition. The town was founded by Jindřich (Henry), the eldest son of Vítek of Prčice. A powerful South-Bohemian dynasty soon got hold of a castle, at that time in the process of construction, on the site of an older Slavonic ancient settlement, and a new residence was built there. In its vicinity a new town started to grow, profiting on its advantageous location, being situated on the intersection of merchants´ paths. The name of the town in the form of GRADEC can be found in old chronicles as early as in the first half of the 13th century. Throughout centuries the House of Vítek ( Vítkovci ) was superseded by other dynasties of nobles, but each of the Lords of Hradec left in this town his traces in the form of opulent buildings, which attract a large number of visitors every year. A well-situated historical core, practically untouched by later renovations and reconstructions, is an urban conservation area, the most interesting sight of which is the area of the medieval castle and Renaissance chateau. In the town of Jindřichův Hradec there is also a number of architecturally rare churches, dominated by the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, also famous for the fact that the 15th meridian runs through one of its outside corners. The most precious ecclesiastical building in the town is the Church of St. John the Baptist with the adjacent premises of the Monastery of Minor Friars, the murals of which rank among the most significant frescoes in the Czech Republic. The building of the former Jesuit Seminary now houses Jindřichův Hradec District Museum. This museum can boast of the largest folk Nativity scene in the Czech Republic, the so-called Krýza´s Crib, the most sought-after item among the Museum´s rich collections.

Panská Street, one of the main streets of the town, links the core of the Old Town with Masaryk Square, the continuation of which is the municipal park. Jarošovská Street, parallel to Klášterská Street, another of the thoroughfares of the town, also mouths into Masaryk Square; at the other end of this street there is a small park, a former churchyard, with a Renaissance Church of the Holy Trinity, erected at the end of the 16th century. And almost opposite this small park there are the premises of the Faculty of Management, part of Prague School of Economics.

Presentation

Jindřichův Hradec-based Faculty of Management is the sixth faculty of Prague School of Economics, the youngest one and - at the same time - the only faculty located outside the capital. At present there are 1,100 students enrolled at the Faculty, one third of them in the programme of combined studies, and more than 60 teachers, research workers and other employees of the Faculty.

The Faculty is basically focused on the studies in the economic-managerial sphere. The main educational goal of the Faculty is to furnish the graduates with modern managerial skills, which will enable them to successfully solve all possible problems of managerial practice in both profit and non-profit oriented organisations, and bodies of state administration or self-administration, and - at the same time - to provide them out with every indispensable kind of knowledge of economic character, which is to be acquired by each graduate from the School of Economics.